Staff Review of Technical Reports Round 1 Response

The James Family and Chamberlin Development have teamed up to create a long-term vision for the development of a portion of the ranch. Working with an expert team of experienced consultants who have worked on some of Arizona’s most admired communities, we are developing a new economic engine for the City of Prescott and a community of great neighborhoods that will surround the core. Inspiration is rooted in cues from Prescott’s natural beauty and its historic and ranching character.

The plan is arranged to protect the long-term operations of the airport while providing the City an economic return on their extensive infrastructure investments in the area. It incorporates retail, commercial and employment uses as well as a wide variety of residential options. The community will be required to include over 400 acres of open space and civic uses which will include a 50-acre wild life corridor and will likely include new educational and recreational facilities and several miles of new hiking trails.

To make this vision a reality, we have submitted plans to the City of Prescott to rezone a portion of the ranch from its existing rights which are intense individual categories: Multi-Family High (MF-H), Single Family (SF-18) Industrial Light (IL), Mixed Use (MU) and Business Regional (BR) to one holistic category: Specially Planned Community (SPC). This is the same zoning that was used to create the Hassayampa master planned community. This zoning category requires a master plan for the long-term development of the property which includes amended development standards to allow the vision and character of the property to be realized.

In addition, we have submitted a text amendment to the Airport Specific Area Plan to bring it into conformance with the voter approved 2015 Prescott General Plan and allow for a mixed-use master planned community with a holistic plan for the long-term protection of airport operations. Finally, we have submitted a comprehensive sign plan which allows signage to be an integral part of the master plan for the community.

Please join us at the open house to hear more about our plans and ask any questions:

Community Development Department at (928) 777-1207 or Tom Guice, Community Development Director, at (928) 777-1317.

A hard-copy of the Deep Well Ranch Master Plan is available at the City of Prescott City Hall.

Deep Well Ranches Annexations

Deep Well Ranches Annexations (ANX 15-001 and ANX 15-002)

A City-initiated annexation of two large areas of approximately 1304 acres and 321 acres, respectively, located west of the Prescott Municipal Airport and north of Pioneer Parkway is now underway. The property is bounded on the east by State Route 89 and on the south by Pioneer Parkway. The subject properties are currently vacant range lands with Yavapai County residential R1L70 and commercial C1 zoning designations. This area was incorporated into the Prescott General Plan in 2011 in anticipation of eventual annexation into the City.

In association with these annexation requests is an amendment to the 2009 master plan and rezoning of various portions of the property to conform to the General Plan map. The master plan is a requirement of Proposition 400 and is used as a basis for the annexation cost-benefit analysis. Shown on the master plan are commercial, mixed use, multi-family and single-family residential land uses. The master plan was first approved in 2009 as part of the Deep Well Ranches Procedural Pre-annexation Development Agreement (Resolution No. 3996-1026; amended by Resolution No. 4172-1334). In 2011, the City initiated a General Plan Map Amendment to reflect the land use designations in the approved land use master plan.

The rezoning of the property includes a change in zone designations from the current large lot residential zoning to Light Industrial, Mixed Use, Business Regional, Multi-family High and Single family 18 designations. The rezoning is consistent with the 2003 and the 2015 Prescott General Plans, the Airport Specific Area Plan and Deep Well Ranches Master Plan land use designations for the area.

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